The CNIO discovers that rapamycin has harmful effects when telomeres are short
The finding helps to better understand diseases such as aplastic anemia and pulmonary fibrosisCredit: CNIO In the past few decades, ...
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How do you make adhesives for electronics, vehicles, and construction tougher?
Credit: Jonathan Wilker/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Make them tougher by making them weaker. That's the proposed solution from ...
The microbes in your mouth, and a reminder to floss and go to the dentist
Oral microbiome was subject of crowd-sourced study by CSU, Denver museumCredit: Denver Museum of Nature & Science Most people know ...
Andrew Butler receives prestigious Weintraub Award for outstanding graduate research
Credit: New York Genome Center NEW YORK, NY (March 2, 2020) - Andrew Butler, a PhD student at New York ...
Improving shoes, showers, 3D printing: Research launching to the space station
A variety of science investigations, along with supplies and equipment, launch to the International Space Station on the 20th SpaceX ...
Fresh clean drinking water for all could soon to be a reality in Pakistan
Huddersfield senior research fellow Dr. Muhammad Usman Ghori will be working with Pakistani officials to bring clean, affordable drinking water ...
Federally protected lands reduce habitat loss and protect endangered species, study finds
Significantly greater habitat loss occurs on private lands, indicating a need for more uniform conservation effortsCredit: Adam Eichenwald, Tufts University ...
How quickly do flower strips in cities help the local bees?
Credit: Susanne S. Renner Insects rely on a mix of floral resources for survival. Populations of bees, butterflies, and flies ...
Marine cyanobacteria do not survive solely on photosynthesis
Credit: University of Córdoba Marine cyanobacteria are single-cell organisms that settled in the oceans millions of years ago. They are ...
What can you learn by peering into a fruit fly’s gut? It turns out a lot!
Eavesdropping on 'conversations' between gut stem cells and gut bacteriaCredit: Image is courtesy of Leslie Koyama and Lucy O'Brien. Baltimore, ...
Radionuclide levels in freshwater fish differ between lakes and rivers
Considering the specific ecosystem is vital when investigating the radioactive contamination of freshwater settings, new study saysCredit: NIES In 2011, ...
Widely used weed killer harming biodiversity
Study examines resilience of freshwater ecosystems contaminated by Roundup herbicideCredit: Photo credit: Vincent Fugère One of the world's most widely ...
5,000-year-old milk proteins point to the importance of dairying in eastern Eurasia
Recent findings push back estimates of dairying in the eastern Steppe by more than 1,700 years, pointing to migration as ...
Soil life thrives between oil palm fronds
Research led by University of Göttingen finds high levels of activity in suspended soilsCredit: V Krashevska, University of Göttingen The ...
Re-thinking ‘tipping points’ in ecosystems and beyond
Credit: André de Roos When a grassland becomes a desert, or a clearwater lake shifts to turbid, the consequences can ...
Could targeting an Alzheimer’s-associated protein prevent Autism?
New study shows reducing levels of the protein tau prevents core autism symptoms in animal modelsCredit: Lauren Bayless, Gladstone Institutes ...
Fish school by randomly copying each other, rather than following the group
Credit: Photo by Milos Prelevic on Unsplash. Fish school by copying each other and changing directions randomly, rather than calculating ...
World’s first next-generation protein sequencing device to accelerate the study of diseases and pandemics
From the team that brought the world the first high-throughput DNA sequencing technologyCredit: Quantum-Si GUILFORD, CT (March 2, 2020) - ...
Directed species loss from species-rich forests strongly decreases productivity
Credit: Yuanyuan Huang The forest biodiversity experiment BEF-China began in 2009 with the collaboration among institutions in China, Germany and ...
Hydrogen energy at the root of life
Evolutionary biologyCredit: Susan Lang, U. of SC. / NSF / ROV Jason / 2018 © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Since ...
